El Paso airport passenger traffic down 6.2% in February

Passenger and freight traffic at El Paso International Airport continued to decline in February, new data show.

The airport handled 170,518 passengers in February. That's 11,295 fewer passengers than in February 2013, or a 6.2 percent decline from a year ago, airport data show. The February total is almost 21,000 fewer passengers than in January, or an almost 11 percent decline compared to February.

The number of daily airplane seats available in February declined 11.2 percent from a year ago to 5,260 daily seats.

February freight traffic declined 11.4 percent from a year ago to 6,251 tons. February's freight total declined 7.6 percent from January.